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The first half of Total Recall (2012) was so cyberpunk
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It's a shame the second half of the movie had all that 'elevator through the center of the planet' nonsense. It started out really fun.
The original Total Recall (1990) is definitely a classic but this movie goes in a different direction entirely. No one goes to Mars in this version. There's still the main plot of "is he really a special agent or was it an implanted memory" but otherwise there's very little overlap between the two.
I personally enjoyed this remake, but mostly because the first half is straight-up cyberpunk. The rich live in Europe while the poor live in Australia and have to commute via an elevator that goes through the middle of the planet. So the first half of the movie has great high-tech low-life visuals but then by the second half of the movie it's just a straight-up action flick where most of the remaining runtime is spent on that elevator. So it's not that the movie is "bad" in my opinion but it does turn into a mindless action movie.
So a movie based on a book, that decided to completely ignore the actual book and just borrows a few aspects of it? No thanks. Although it sounds that the first half was entertaining in it's own way. Maybe it makes for a fine popcorn movie for people who don't actually know what the plot is 'supposed' to be.
I see, thanks. I'll have to keep an eye out for whenever it cycles back around onto one of the streaming services I subscribe to.